Thomas Friedman: Globalization has collapsed time and distance and raised the notion that someone anywhere on earth can do your job, more cheaply. Can Americans rise to the challenge on this leveled playing field?

Check out this really cool hovercraft designed to transition from a fast moving boat into a low flying airplane. Amazing video.

Scientists have genetically engineered remote-controlled fruit flies that can be made to jump and beat their wings with pulses of laser light.

Before the Pentagon decided that it wanted to stock soldiers’ backpacks with miniature unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, Defense Department researchers had a slightly different idea: give G.I.s their own flying saucers instead. Cool photo.

A method of gene therapy has been developed that exploits a natural process to accurately and permanently correct disease-causing genetic mutations.

Men spend more money on video games than they do on music, research group Nielsen Entertainment said on Thursday, lending credence to a growing belief that video games are displacing other forms of media for the attention of young men.

With 400,000 American construction workers injured each year, and a typical American house takeing at least six months to complete, house building had been the same tiring gritty job for 20,000 years. For this problem, Behrokh Khoshnevis has a solution: A robotic house builder.